City had awaited attack since 9/11
Brian Paddick, deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, summed up the critical difference between the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States and the bombs that went...
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Critics say attacks justify early opposition to Iraq war
And now, the political fallout. George Galloway, the sharp-tongued member of Parliament who flummoxed a U.S. Senate panel at a hearing in May on the Iraq oil-for-food scandal, struck first....
Allies on terror alert hunt London bombers
The United States and its allies Thursday ratcheted up security and deployed intelligence and police investigators to find the bombers responsible for a series of brazen and coordinated morning rush-hour...
Terror explosions caught city only slightly off guard
Unlike New York, London had seen it all before. A generation lived through the Nazi blitz, often taking refuge from the nightly bombing attacks in the deep tunnels of the...
Blair tempers hopes for G-8 breakthrough
As leaders of the world's wealthiest nations assembled for their summit at the Gleneagles golf resort and police scuffled with protesters across a wide swath of Scotland, British Prime Minister...
Wife was left behind with the children
Last week, a tearful Marsela Nasr sat down in a Balkan cafe and poured out her woes to a journalist. In the back of the cafe, a television flickered. Italian...
Abducted imam aided CIA ally
Among the multiple mysteries swirling around the abduction of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr in Italy, one stands out as by far the most perplexing. Why would the U.S. government go...
Italy charges CIA agents
Four days before Osama Nasr Mostafa Hassan vanished into the thin Italian air, three middle-aged American visitors checked into the $300-a-night Milan Hilton on Via Luigi Galvani. The Americans, a...
Labor, Blair have solid lead in polls as Britain votes
Britons vote in national elections Thursday, and the question on the mind of most political professionals is not whether Prime Minister Tony Blair will win a historic third term but...
Pope Benedict XVI
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a traditionalist and doctrinal enforcer who collaborated closely with his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, was elected pope Tuesday in a conclave that lasted little more than...